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M 4.9mb

109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

· 5.0 km deep · released about 340 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.9 (mb)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 58 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 135 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 500× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.9 about 340 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 710× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 60.5098, -140.0887. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 58 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.1 111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 2.0 110 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 1.9 108 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 2.0 109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 2.3 112 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 2.0 108 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 1.9 110 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 2.3 110 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 2.2 112 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 2.1 104 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 2.3 111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 2.9 108 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 2.5 110 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 2.0 106 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 2.2 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 7.0 on 2025-12-06 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

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